jza01701
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Greetings.
I found a gold nugget on a hillside near some visable gold ore.
Happily I tucked it away as a souvenir.
As I have neither the time, funds, or equipment to process ore... I just assumed I found all I would see easily and did not dig around.
There are two yellow gossan outcroppings just bellow the surface exposed on the sandy gravel covered hillside just below where I found the crystalline nugget.
One has a vein that appears oxidized running vertically through it into the ground.
The ore is futher up the hill and looked whitish on the surface and more brownish
underneath.
The area is not a place I could just bring heavy tools and just rip everything apart without ruffling a few feathers.
If I do travel back, should I dig into the ore, the gossan, or just assume I got one nice specimen and call it a day?
I found a gold nugget on a hillside near some visable gold ore.
Happily I tucked it away as a souvenir.
As I have neither the time, funds, or equipment to process ore... I just assumed I found all I would see easily and did not dig around.
There are two yellow gossan outcroppings just bellow the surface exposed on the sandy gravel covered hillside just below where I found the crystalline nugget.
One has a vein that appears oxidized running vertically through it into the ground.
The ore is futher up the hill and looked whitish on the surface and more brownish
underneath.
The area is not a place I could just bring heavy tools and just rip everything apart without ruffling a few feathers.
If I do travel back, should I dig into the ore, the gossan, or just assume I got one nice specimen and call it a day?
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